FULL SCREEN Ron Flanary The 2015 CSX Santa Train heads toward the Sandy Ridge Tunnel south of Trammel, Va. FULL SCREEN Chase Gunnoe Santa Claus hands out gifts to families from the year of the CSX Santa Train Saturday, Nov. 21. FULL SCREEN Chase Gunnoe Inside the CSX Santa Train, thousands of presents, pieces of […]
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New model trains for the week of November 26, 2015
HO scale locomotives General Electric U23B diesel locomotive. Low short hood. New paint scheme: Erie Lackawanna. New road numbers: Chesapeake & Ohio, Conrail, and Western Pacific. Re-issues: Missouri-Kansas-Texas. High short hood. New paint scheme: Georgia Central. New road numbers: Norfolk Southern. Three numbers per scheme. Separately applied windshield wipers, wire grab irons, uncoupling levers, m.u. […]
Cable channel to live-stream Alaska Railroad on Thanksgiving NEWSWIRE
An Alaska Railroad passenger train glides through the open terrain of the U.S.’ largest state. Discovery channel’s Destination America channel plans to live-broadcast an entire one-way trip on the railroad. Frank Keller SILVER SPRING, Md. — If having a yule log burning on your television screen seems too cliché on Thanksgiving, a cable television channel […]
NS introduces latest specialty locomotive NEWSWIRE
Norfolk Southern’s latest specialty painted locomotive for First Responders, GP38-2 No. 5642. Norfolk Southern ALTOONA, Pa. — Norfolk Southern says it has another special-painted locomotive gracing its rails. This time, GP38-2 No. 5642 is painted as a first responder unit similar to SD60E No. 9-1-1. NS says on its Facebook page that the locomotive will […]
Video: Korea Brass HO scale U25C with TCS WOWSound DCC decoder
The Korea Brass HO scale General Electric U25C features a Train Control Systems WOWDiesel Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder. Watch this HO scale diesel-electric locomotive model as it hauls a freight train on the Model Railroader staff’s model train layout. […]
Video: SoundTraxx Econami ECO-100 DCC decoder steam version
Senior editor Dana Kawala installed a SoundTraxx Econami ECO-100 Digital Command Control (DCC) sound decoder into a Trix HO scale United States Railway Administration light 2-8-2 steam locomotive. Check out this demo of the new Econami decoder on the Model Railroader staff’s club layout, the Milwaukee, Racine & Troy. […]
Is the IHB Hunter’s real target? NEWSWIRE
Is the Indiana Harbor Belt’s 54 miles of mainline track a key component of the proposed 33,700-mile merger of Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern? Quite possibly. The IHB, whose main line circles Chicago and could link CP lines in the Midwest with NS lines to the East and South, is an integral part of CP’s […]
Hunter and the hunted NEWSWIRE
A CSX Transportation train with Canadian Pacific power waits on a Norfolk Southern train to cross the diamonds at Northwood, Ohio, in January 2014. Michael Harding He said he might do it. Discussing his company’s flirtation with CSX in October 2014, Canadian Pacific Chief Executive Officer E. Hunter Harrison mentioned that CP had looked at […]
CP or NS: which has a soul for preservation? NEWSWIRE
No. 611 on an excursion. Jim Wrinn Canadian Pacific’s offer to purchase Norfolk Southern has the full attention of industry analysts and investors. They’re thinking deeply about the railroads’ “net present values,” network operations, and regulatory filings. But what about the companies’ souls? How do the two companies compare in terms of railway preservation? A […]
Hunter speaks NEWSWIRE
Canadian Pacific CEO E. Hunter Harrison AP If only Norfolk Southern would agree to talk more — and to Canadian Pacific. If that were to happen, Canadian Pacific CEO Hunter Harrison says he’s confident he could work out a deal to buy NS that would win over shippers and regulators. Harrison made the comments about […]
Trains’ ‘cheat sheet’ for CSX’s Santa Train NEWSWIRE
Santa Claus on the observation car platform on CSX Transportation’s Santa Train from 2013. Kevin Gilliam Map of the Clinchfield from the Jan. 2016 issue of Trains. Kevin Gilliam KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Fans and photographers are gearing up for the 73rd annual CSX Transportation Santa Train this Saturday Nov. 21. Decisions by CSX earlier this […]
